International perspective on mineral resources

Mineral resources and geo-engineering

Metals used in everyday life are produced from ores occurring in the Earth’s crust. Geological processes are known to concentrate minerals to form ores of economic value. Mineral processing engineers concentrate these ores by mechanical and physico-chemical methods while the extractive metallurgist extracts the metals by chemical means.

Community Culture in Language Resources – An International Perspective

I highlight a few issues which I consider of relevance with respect to the infrastructural role of Language Resources. I underline some of the circumstances and attitudes which are specific of the European approach, and sketch how I see the current situation in the LR field and what I think is of highest priority with respect to implementing an open Language Infrastructure. My objective is to s...

First International Workshop on Lexical Resources

ANR-funded Nomage project aims at describing the aspectual properties of deverbal nouns taken from a corpus, in an empirical way. It is centered on the development of two resources: a semantically and syntactically annotated corpus of deverbal nouns based on the French Treebank, and an electronic lexicon, providing descriptions of morphological, syntactic and semantic properties of the deverbal...

On maximizing third world benefits from mineral resources

Global Mineral Resources , Occurrence and Distribution